Some makeup artists speak another language. We say "smoky eyes"; they hear "Vegas showgirl." Wright promised to teach us a dramatic look that wouldn't require pasties and a feather headdress. After dusting on a peach eye shadow, she rubbed a chocolate shade into our creases. Our dark eyes looked bigger, and once Wright applied brown pencil along our top lashes, they also looked sexier. We needed only a cinnamon lip gloss and bronzer on our cheeks to look perfectly done up—for our dinner date, that is, not dinner theater.